Digital educational resources publications

Together towards a public ecosystem

Publication: together towards a public ecosystem

This publication outlines the route to a fixed common goal: an ecosystem for digital educational resources that meets the public values of importance to the sector. This enables cross-sector collaboration and use of the ecosystem, while respecting differences between sectors. Working within an ecosystem requires an integrated approach in which people, agreements and technology come together in a structured way and achieve solutions, in which each takes on its own role and responsibility.

Talking point

Talking plate Digital learning resources: a flexible and rich offering for lecturers and students
Isn't it great when lecturers and students will soon have an optimal mix of digital learning resources at their disposal? Regardless of where the materials come from and whether they are paid or free. So what does the cycle from development to deployment of those educational resources look like? Discover this future perspective and read the explanation on the talking sheet.

Vision

Vision document Learning Resources in 2025
The Acceleration Zone Towards Digital (Open) Learning Resources has formulated a vision for digital learning resources, with 2025 as its horizon. It involves an optimal mix of educational resources, regardless of where the materials come from and whether they are commercially offered or open for use. The vision is set out in eight vision statements, along with the building blocks to achieve it.

Organisation

Introduction to open educational resources
In this Introduction to open educational resources, you will find out what open educational resources are, how you can use them in your own teaching, and how you can arrange your own materials so that others can make optimal use of them.

Infographic: Applying OERs in your institution
This infographic gives you insight into the 3 levels at which you can organise OERs. For each level, it shows what your institution needs to consider in order to use OER effectively. Take a look at the levels to determine which steps your institution can take to grow.

Roadmap for Open Educational Resources Policy
Use this handy roadmap to help formulate a policy for OERs.

Roadmap for OER communities
When creating, sharing, and reusing OER, collaboration with other lecturers is very important. Collaboration becomes easier in an active professional community. Use the step-by-step plan to build an OER community.

Step-by-step plan Quality model for OERs
Are you working on building up a collection of educational resources? Then make sure the materials are of good quality. This step-by-step plan will help you set up, implement and maintain a quality model.

Roadmap Vakvocabulaire voor Open Educational Resources
Do you work in a training association, professional association or professional community and do you want to make educational resources available through this partnership? Make sure that the digital educational resources are easy to find. A subject vocabulary helps with this.

Step plan Development workshop
Do you want to speed up the adoption of OERs within your institution? Do you want to help lecturers really get started? Set up an online workshop to inspire lecturers and help them gain experience. The workshop is also for support staff.

Adoption of OERs: which steps to take
Read the blog post by Janine van Hees (SURF) with tips on which steps to take so lecturers see the added value of OERs.

Roadmap for creating your open textbook!
Want to publish an open textbook within higher education? Check out the developed step-by-step plan for creating an open textbook. It contains good practices, instructions for and expertise on publishing open textbooks.

Technology

Looking for technology to share and find educational resources more effectively
Read Kirsten Veelo's (SURF) blog post on new possibilities in searching, finding and unlocking (meta)data.

Educational practice

OERs and the role of educational IT professionals
The use of OERs is growing within MBO, HBO and WO institutions. Who are involved in advising lecturers about OERs? What are educational IT professionals, what is their role and where do their needs in professional development lie? To best support this target group, this exploration was carried out.

Trend report: Adaptive educational resources in higher education
With adaptive educational resources, you create education that is automatically tailored to the needs and competences of individual students. What exactly is adaptive educational resources, what are the opportunities and what are the risks in practice?

Examples of professional communities
Tips for professional communities to create digital learning resources together, as well as the first experiences of professional communities that exchange educational resources.

Open Educational Resources in Practice
Lecturers talk about their experiences with sharing or reusing OERs. Lecturers who believe in sharing knowledge and using each other's expertise.

Theme edition Open Pedagogy
In this theme edition, we provide an initial description of Open Pedagogy that offers lecturers concrete tools for inspiration and application in their own educational practice.

Theme edition Reuse of Open Educational Resources
An exploration of the bottlenecks and possible solutions for the reuse of educational resources from the perspective of lecturers, students, libraries, professionalisation and cross-institutional sharing of educational resources. An essential prerequisite is cooperation.

Figurehead projects to share and reuse educational resources
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science wants lecturers in higher education to share and reuse educational resources. The so-called figurehead projects help in their adoption.

Research

Grand Challenges learning analytics & open and online education - an exploration
How to deploy learning analytics in open and online education?

Infographic OER 2016
Main findings of the research carried out by the Fontys University of applied sciences IT research group, partly on behalf of SURF.

Report Quality of open educational resources 2013
Research into issues surrounding open educational resources in Dutch higher education.

eStudybooks

Position Paper, utilise the opportunities of digital educational resources

Digitisation offers new opportunities for higher education, such as the integrated, enriched and flexible provision of digital educational resources to students. What does SURF think? Read the position paper.

Evaluation report eStudybooks

Since 2012, studies and proof of concepts have been carried out for making publishers' digital educational resources accessible to students within Dutch higher education. At the conclusion of the proof of concept phase in 2020, the results were recorded in Evaluation Report eStudybooks.

Feasibility study Inclusive Access

Inclusive Access is a model where students can have personal digital access to all teaching and learning resources from the first day of their studies. How this model, successful in the US, could work in the Dutch context has been investigated by SURF in Feasibility Study Inclusive Access.